{"id":2285,"date":"2013-09-29T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunce.itlaganini.org\/en\/sunce-conducts-marine-research-in-primorsko-goranska-county\/"},"modified":"2017-11-16T09:18:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T09:18:03","slug":"sunce-conducts-marine-research-in-primorsko-goranska-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/news\/sunce-conducts-marine-research-in-primorsko-goranska-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunce conducts marine research in Primorsko-goranska County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During June, July and September 2013, the Sunce Association participated in the research activities of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/hr\/projekti\/medmpanet-pilot-projekt-u-hrvatskoj?lang=hr\">MedMPAnet project<\/a><\/strong>, which was developed to enhance the conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity and the creation of an ecologically connected network of protected coastal and marine areas.<\/p>\n<p>In the selected areas of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County (Susak, Unije, Srakane, Krk, Prvi\u0107, Goli otok, Grgur, Rab), we conducted the first systematic inventory and mapping of marine species and habitats and a study of <em>Posidonia oceanica<\/em> conservation status. This is the basis for future research, all with the aim of improving the implementation of the SPA\/BD protocol and fulfilling the Republic of Croatia&#8217;s obligations towards the European Union in terms of monitoring the situation and reporting based on the EU <a href=\"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/natura-2000\"><strong>Habitats Directive<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Regional Project Coordinator is the Center for Regional Activities for Specially Protected Areas (RACs\/SPAs) from Tunisia and Croatian Partners, <a href=\"http:\/\/mzoip.hr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ministry of Environmental and Nature Protection<\/strong><\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dzzp.hr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Countries Institute for Nature Protection<\/strong><\/a>. The project is designed to help build monitoring capacity and enable the collection of relevant data for better managed coastal and marine protected areas and for future <a href=\"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/hr\/projekti\/zajedno-za-ocuvanje-prirode-natura-2000-u-hrvatskoj\"><strong>NATURA 2000<\/strong><\/a> marine areas.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs of our activities and submarines during these terrains can be seen on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.589871531055096.1073741832.241406625901590&amp;type=3&amp;uploaded=28\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sunce&#8217;s Facebook page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During June, July and September 2013, the Sunce Association participated in the research activities of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}